Your language adventure guide comes from New Zealand where he spent some of his youth hiking through the native bush and meeting eco-refugees from throughout the world seeking to escape it all.

To learn more he joined the Institute of International Affairs, got a Master of Arts in politics and a Diploma in Journalism then headed abroad. First came a few years living and working in London and Scotland.
Then, on discovering that the rest of the world did not speak English, he became an English teacher.

With his teaching certificate in hand in 1997 he worked his way through Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia and Germany, teaching general and business English and doing a stint of broadcasting for Radio Slovakia International. Along the way he also tried his hand at skiing, kayaking, mountaineering, bike touring and even learning some new languages.

Now based in Bologna, he divides his time between teaching at the European Food Safety Authority, Trenitalia and elsewhere and climbing and biking with Club Alpino Italiano as well as finding enthusiastic folk who want to go with him on a tour of New Zealand, Scotland or the Balcans. He can speak a modest amount of German, French and Italian.